The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has ditched plans to appoint one of the duo of Eric Chelle and Tom Saintfeit as the new coach of the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Yesterday the technical committee sat on the pressing issue of a new coach for the Super Eagles with the AFCON 2025 games against Benin Republic and Rwanda respectively around the corner, but a whole new option was presented to them.
We gathered that the meeting which was meant to make a firm decision on one of the two coaches reached a premature end, when members were informed of an entirely different option as coach of the team expected to be made public soon.
A choice of the president Ibrahim Musa Gusau, the new man is said to have the blessing of the minister for sports senator John Enoh, who was opposed to the idea of one of the duo of Chelle and Saintfeit the two leading contenders for the job.
His identity wasn’t made public to the committee with some details of his contract yet to be finalized. There are chances that all could be done by the weekend ahead of his unveiling next week.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
